 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...for, the well enchanting skill of musick — and with a tale, forsooth ; he cometh unto you with a a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." " Even those hard-hearted, evil men, who think virtue a school name, and despise the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 396 pages
...for, the well enchanting skill of musick — and with a tale, forsooth ; he cometh unto you with a a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." " Even those hard-hearted, evil men, who think virtue a school name, and despise the... | |
 | Henry Alford - Greek poetry - 1841 - 272 pages
...accompanied with or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale forsooth he cometh to you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." THESE, reader, are the words of Sir Philip Sidney, in his Origin of Defence of Poesie;... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 648 pages
...with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale that holdeth children from play, and old-men from the chimney-corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take wholesome things, by hiding them... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1844 - 676 pages
...fair objects of their affections. THE GENIUS OF THEOCRITUS. " And with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you — with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner."- — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Theocritus ! Theocritus ! ah ! thou had 'at pleasant dreams,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...accompanied with or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, forsooth ; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them... | |
 | 1847 - 592 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he D chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1849 - 256 pages
...cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, aud old men from the chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue... | |
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... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney... 
